Peekvid will be shut down very soon but before that happens you we can use it to sample a shedload of TV shows in YouTube-style streaming video. It’s actually a really good way of trying stuff before you buy. Fr’instance, I now know the anime series Gundam Seed Destiny is fucking mental in a batshit good way. (Yes, I’m on something on a Giant Robot trip at the moment.) (via)
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In June 2000 I started blogging at peteashton.com and 10 years later in June 2010 I decided to stop. Blogging here, that is. I started a clean slate over on I Am Pete Ashton and maintain all manner of other web presences which are all listed here along with my contact details.
You probably came here via a Google search or from following a link on some old blog post somewhere. I hope what you find is useful in some way, though do check the publication date - it might be rather old now.
Thanks for your eyeballs.
Pete Ashton
Peekvid is but one of hundreds of index sites which now link to streamed movies and TV taken found on the popular video-hosting sites, YouTube, DailyMotion, etc. Of course, Peekvid, as the most popular, is the one getting all the heat at the moment. (It’s under investigation by the US Justice Department, as reported by NBC last week.)
The problem is that, although they don’t host the copyrighted content, they fall foul of the law by ‘facilitating’ illegal activity. And you can bet your bottom dollar that examples will be made of a few of those watching the streamed content too, just as with music.
It’s a shame. I’m all for the sites.
jedi… someone needs to tear you a new asshole
Thanks Paddy! That is very nice of you to say that. You seem to have a lack of brain power if that’s all you can say to me. C’mon we are adults, talk like one.
Pete, no I wasn’t refering to your webcite earlier in the blog. Your webcite is actually pretty cool. So, you’ve made your own camera?
Now now boys, don’t get your knickers in a twist!
Jedi. You spelt website wrong. Sort it out.
JEDI IS A HOMO
Thanks for correcting my spelling you might want to work on your punctuation.
It’s not
Jedi. You spelt website wrong. Sort it out.
It’s
Jedi, You spelt website wrong. Sort it out.
Sort it out.
Thanks
Jedi, it’s not
Jedi, You spelt website wrong. Sort it out.
It’s
Jedi, you spelt ‘website’ incorrectly. Sort it out.
Jeez…
Jedi, you just confirmed how much of a knob you really are. Got ot go, Peekvid is up and running. LOL
Ok, to be grammatically correct.
Is spelt a word? No, I guess not. That would be spelled. You spelled “spelt” incorrectly. Thank you come again. Sort it out.
Jeez…
Who cares if peekvid is up and running that’s not the point. The point is there are five or six other web pages that are up and running too, with the same available movies/shows…
Now, you will begin to see there will be more talk about this same issue on the news and more and more people will begin to speak out against pirating. This will eventualy lead to users paying money to access these web pages. Trust me you will not see this coming unless you do your research for the long run, not just what you like to do. Everything isn’t free in this world. You may think you are getting it free (in reality you are) but in the long run you are doing more harm than good. If you don’t see it your obviously blind to truth and the truth will weed you out in the end. Just think, your an everyday common thief.
Thanks,
Jedi
Another classic from jedi: “Is spelt a word? No, I guess not. That would be spelled. You spelled “spelt” incorrectly. Thank you come again.”
OK, I’ve arrived. Just because ‘spelled’ is used in the US of A doesn’t mean that the rest of the world use it. In British English (which I use) ‘spelt’ is quite acceptable (i.e., correct). It’s a pity your education isn’t as wide as your arse obviously is.
Woohoo we have a winner! It’s a pity your interpretation of a fannypack or pants is different than ours. Didn’t think I knew about that one did you. Well, I do and guess what my family is from Britian/England… whatever you are. C’mon you got to do better than that.
Jedi,
You need to calm down!
C’est magnifique, mais ce n’est pas la guerre.
Bonjour!
jedi said “fanny”. Ban him! Ban him! … Centuwion. Vewy wuffly.
The site was pretty much clogged with dead links anyway. Try out venivideovici.com instead. It doesn’t have as much content, but I like the interface and the lack of dead links.
Peekvid is up. But what’s this ‘Beta’ thing all about? Does that translate as “we don’tknow how long thissite will be here or if it even works, but we’ve covered ourselves with the ‘Beta’ label”?
You can watch 24 at alloftv.net, BTW.
The idea that “the laws of supply and demand” will guarantee that entertainment will always be available for you even if you steal it is ridiculous.
Movies, TV, and video games are capital-intensive. (That means they cost lots of money to produce). If everyone steals them, there will be no way to pay for their production. If you could download a Mercedes on the internet for free, there would be a ton of demand, but Mercedes-Benz would quickly go out of business.
Similarly, the kind of expensive-to-produce effects-laden entertainment you like — the Matrix, Casino Royale, Harry Potter, Halo 3 — will cease to be if you continue to steal it. You will be left with watching other people’s home movies on YouTube.
Music is a slightly different story. Music is not capital-intensive: you can make it in your bedroom and post it to your website for very little money. Bands are doing this now because their own “fans” are stealing their music and they are increasingly forced to make a living from their live performances only. This is hurting a lot of the indie acts. But the movie, videogame, and TV industries don’t work this way. No more money = no more movies.
You can call Jedi all the names you like. It doesn’t make what you’re doing any less wrong. Nor should you act superior to the artists that you steal from just because you’ve found a way to steal from them without getting caught.
Ultimately, you will pay the price. The only thing left to watch will be advertiser-driven content: movies about toilet paper or diswasher detergent.
Enjoy yourself while it lasts. You will miss entertainment when it’s gone.
The idea that “the laws of supply and demand” will guarantee that entertainment will always be available for you even if you steal it is ridiculous.
Movies, TV, and video games are capital-intensive. (That means they cost lots of money to produce). If everyone steals them, there will be no way to pay for their production. If you could download a Mercedes on the internet for free, there would be a ton of demand, but Mercedes-Benz would quickly go out of business.
Similarly, the kind of expensive-to-produce effects-laden entertainment you like — the Matrix, Casino Royale, Harry Potter, Halo 3 — will cease to be if you continue to steal it. You will be left with watching other people’s home movies on YouTube.
Music is a slightly different story. Music is not capital-intensive: you can make it in your bedroom and post it to your website for very little money. Bands are doing this now because their own “fans” are stealing their music and they are increasingly forced to make a living from their live performances only. This is hurting a lot of the indie acts. But the movie, videogame, and TV industries don’t work this way. No more money = no more movies.
You can call Jedi all the names you like. It doesn’t make what you’re doing any less wrong. Nor should you act superior to the artists that you steal from just because you’ve found a way to steal from them without getting caught.
Ultimately, you will pay the price. The only thing left to watch will be advertiser-driven content: movies about toilet paper or diswasher detergent.
Enjoy yourself while it lasts. You will miss entertainment when it’s gone.
Or maybe, if there isn’t such a pot of gold waiting for them, the film companies will start getting selective about what movies they make. Then quality will become important and when we go down the rental shop, dogding the crap will less resemble a minefield. If pirating means no more second-rate, cheapo straight-to-CD drivel then that’s OK by me. It’s not like most people have time to watch that many movies anyway. Perhaps this is a kind of Gaia effect working in the film industry: the good movies will always be made but the new equilibrium will kill off the superfluous parasites…
Thinking out loud, like…
OK, wisearse. I meant straight-to-DVD.
So you think that stealing music will somehow magically lead to the elimination of movies you DON’T like?
Very unlikely. The junk is cheap and easy to make. It’s the good stuff that’s expensive. There will be plenty of junk being made after this is all over.
Are you telling me that you sit around watching garbage on Peekvid? Do you have that much time to waste? No, you watch the stuff you want to watch — the good stuff. By definition, you’re stealing what you like to watch. Therefore, you’re doing the opposite of what you claim — you’re stealing from the people who make the entertainment you like.
All these arguments you make are designed to make you feel virtuous about doing something you know is wrong. “I’m really punishing the movie studios for making bad movies — so it must be OK!” This is called rationalization, and it’s the refuge of the weak.
You’re stealing. Admit it, and you’re just a common thief. If you don’t admit it, you’re a thief and a hypocrite as well.
all you fucking morons are going on and on how peekvid so good has everything saves you money and all let me tell you something if their fucking web site will fucking load once before waiting twenty minutes itching your balls and for you chicks out there i dont know what your doing then ill cellabrate
what the fucks your problem mike
Mike’s an effin moron. ‘Nuff said. Should’na skipped school, mate.
IM A MASSIVE WANKER
And when I’m not making a fool of myself on the Internet I like fondling little boys.
if find that vidlist.net isn’t too bad.. no banners and full screen well worth look..
vidlist.net
Piracy is not theft, as theft involves the removal of an item (or items) from their rightful owner AS WELL AS their procurement by somebody else (the thief). Piracy is, well, piracy, or copyright infringement, not theft.
If I stole your car, that’s theft. If I steal your car and leave you an identical working copy, that’s piracy. Car piracy. ;)
With that out of the way – as others have said, a lot of downloaded music and video is by those people who WOULD NOT have purchased the items in the first place. There are no lost sales to these people. If this is the case, who is the victim of this crime and where do the losses arise? (Jedi and music thief, your input would be welcome here, since to me this appears a victimless crime.)
With regards to piracy ‘destroying the future of multimedia’ – the future of multimedia should seek to harness new technology, not oppress it. Online music stores are only just recently starting to utilise what Napster and filesharing network began years ago. That is how the industry should react to technological challenge – innovate, not exterminate.
‘High octane’ video games with graphical and audio bells and whistles are more likely to be killed off by their own shallow values than piracy. Financially, it takes a hell of a lot of money to make modern graphics, special effects, music and sound, which means that every single game that has these modern features is a large financial risk to the producers. Therefore, they will be more likely to stick to ‘proven’ successful formulae (e.g. Need For Speed Underground Turbo Red IV-2 Gold Edition: Most Wanted) rather than developing new and groundbreaking games.
With the result, naturally, that the industry may stagnate and consumers, bored with the chattel they’re being thrown, lose interest – thus causing more financial loss and probably hardening the producers’ commitment to the bland market they’ve created.
The video, music and computer game industries need to snap out of the mindset of ‘the consumers aren’t playing fair’. The consumers play how they want to play, the industries serve and make money from their playing. Adapt to it, don’t try to control it.
You are using a very narrow and self-serving definition of theft. You seem to want it to apply to goods and not services.
I assume you have a job, or have had at one time. Imagine that you worked at your job for 40 hours. At the end of the week, you expect to get a paycheck. But your employer decides not to pay you. He reasons that no harm has been done, as no physical object has been taken from you. All you have lost is your labor, which doesn’t exist in a physical sense. Are you still entitled to the money? Of course you are. You’re entitled to be paid in exchange for services just as you are for goods.
An entertainer provides you a service. If you take his services without paying for them, you are stealing from him. It doesn’t matter if it’s a physical object or not.
The media industry does need to adapt. But trying to pin the blame on them for piracy is ridiculous. You’re like a thief who argues that his crime is actually the shopkeeper’s fault because the shopkeeper didn’t have an expensive enough alarm system. When someone robs your house, will you accept this argument? Or will you expect the police to prosecute the criminal?
I would have more respect for someone who acknowledges that what he’s doing is wrong, even if he keeps doing it, than for someone who hides behind flimsy arguments and rationalizations.
I see someone is using my name and posting nasty things about me. Nice going you sound very immature and your brain could fall out at any second. People like you don’t deserve to post anything on Pete’s weblink. Your a freak, you have nothing to offer the world, and your not smart enough to come up with your own name. I guess that makes you nameless. Wow, did I just degrade you without using the same kind of language you used?
You are a Jedi imposter!
Quote by jedi: ‘your not smart enough to come up with your own name’.
Oh dear. Like lambs to the slaughter…
Firstly, “your” is the second person singular possessive. “You’re” is a contraction of ‘you’ and ‘are’. Regarding the question of my intelligence, I have at least been aware of this obscure grammatical fact probably from the age of about 7.
BTW my name really is Jedi takesit uptheass. Takesit was my maternal grandmother’s maiden name.
Really.
Making use of material under a copyright without permission (as in, you did not purchase it) does affect the entertainment industry. In some cases, it works out well for the entertainment industry, as online distribution, whether legal or not, has helped many would be “in the bargain bin in six weeks” projects to catch on. In other cases, it has caused thousands and thousands of lost sales.
This problem isn’t new. Music piracy has been around long before computers were household electronics. Software piracy has been around since long before music was on most computers. What becomes so difficult about digital materials is that we have come to a point where we have to accept limiting access and use to certain numbers (bit streams) because one of the infinite possible ideas they could represent happens to fall under a copyright. But hey, no ones downloading the last five seasons of twenty four because the divx encoding of episode 34 happens to be the same as their lucky number in some obscure floating point representation. We all know what we’re doing. So do the people making laws.
There’s a lot of people saying that “they can’t stop us”. There’s also a lot of people saying “you’re ruining everything”. Well, both sides are right. Digital materials cannot be protected very easily at all. Even the most extensive schemes of digital rights protection can easily be washed off by capturing raw streams and re-encoding them as something some lucky people can even view on the cell phone web browser.
That’s technology. And yes, its ruining everything. It happens. If we release “the automobile”, there will surely be drunken fools who plow piles of young innocent children into forests of trees that are being drenched with burning jet fuel from the airliner that just went down. In the meantime, we’re running out of oil and the sun is going to explode (well, I guess the last one there has nothing to do with us, but who knows). I think we should have stuck to BBQ, campfires, and seven day work weeks to avoid this disaster that the world has become. But I don’t even have the power to take my own garbage out. Watching illegal TV is just so much more fun.
Whether its right or wrong, the entertainment industry as we know it is very, very young. To be too upset at its loss in the next fifty years would be like putting yourself out of your misery because you can no longer get “those damn MC Hammer pants”. Stuff happens, things change, and there are new things. Historically, entertainment has been free much longer than it has been commercial (well, with the exception of much historical entertainment involving death, torture, and beheading – I guess we can’t say that’s free for EVERYONE). If it goes back that way, its because the whole commercial entertainment thing didn’t work out. It has surely been notable enough to show up in your grand children’s pirated history e-book, but that’s just what a lot of what we’re used to will be – history.
The unfortunate thing is that with all of this bickering, we’ve only slowed down the development of some great data encoding and network technologies over the years. One of the most revolutionary peer-to-peer systems after the popularity of Napster was pulled off the net after a few months because the corporation that engineered it realized it was an “oh shit” idea (Gnutella). But there were many, many others working on something similar at the same time. Piracy has pushed developments in security and cryptography further than they have ever been pushed, because now, something much more vital to the survival of this universe is at stake than national and personal security: the profits of “American Pie 5″.
The truth is there’s no way to stop people from developing and using streaming video and peer to peer technologies. And it is good that there isn’t. They’ve turned out to be pretty helpful tools so far. But as with anything, there’s side effects. Technology will change the world we live in. It WILL make some people lose their jobs. It WILL make some TV shows go off the air. But that’s life. You get lucky sometimes, and sometimes a piano falls on your head. Complaining about it just makes people compare you to Metallica. Settle down about this stuff and enjoy it while its fresh.
To Takesit,
Something that really makes you think! Your words are like air, they come and go, I breathe them in and I can’t live without it. The only problem is it’s not air it’s carbon monoxide. Your words are like the air ahahahahah lol lol!!!! Meaningless Ahahahah!!!nothing nothing nothing… hahahahahah…
Takesit? whatever!
I agree that what we are doing is wrong, and that tha companies are losing tons of money. But with that said, i say i will keep watching movies online and downloading music, why? because there are tons and tons of movies, cd’s, software out there that suck, and i would like to give it a try or wacht it or hear it before i buy it. I live in Mexico and the pay here its not that good. Sometimes we buy cd’s without even hear them before buyin it and we end up regreting it.
So blame me if you want, say what you want to say about me, but i will most definitely will download a movie or a cd before i buy it.
Like you said it’s wrong, but i don’t see it any other way.
A slightly different tack: ’24′ is now being shown on TV in the US. Where I am, it is not. But where’s the harm in me watching it online? No-one’s losing money at all if I do. Once something is broadcast into the air, I say it’s fair game for anyone, even if it’s re-routed through another medium.
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